sullen - Story 143744 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the tree falling barely registered. Frank stared out his kitchen window, ignoring the chaos in Mrs. Davies' yard. The branches had smashed her rose bushes. He picked at a hangnail. The tree fall was just another annoyance, a blip on a day that already felt like a flat tire.

He sighed, the sound heavy and slow. He’d skipped breakfast, finding no hunger in his stomach. He’d already cancelled his plans for the day. He couldn't face anyone.

He wanted to scream. Instead, he made another cup of coffee. He let the bitterness fill his mouth, a familiar taste that matched the one inside. He wasn't going to help. He wasn't going to care.

Emotion: sullen

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -1.51 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.22

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sullen. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sullen stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sullen emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sullen vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.404
`😞`	0.282
`’`	0.254
`:(`	0.233
`无法`	0.215

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.539
`!`	-0.276
`la`	-0.263
`🤩`	-0.225
`que`	-0.216